excessive bail
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 1 - Stack v. Boyle · 1951Most cited · 2,376 citing opinions
Bail set at a figure higher than an amount reasonably calculated to fulfill this purpose is 'excessive' under the Eighth Amendment.
How often courts cite the case defining “excessive bail”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “excessive bail” — 2,373 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.